Over five million workers across the UK gave away £27.4 billion in unpaid overtime in 2009, a TUC analysis of official statistics reveals today (Thursday).
The campaign for a Community Day bank holiday today (Tuesday) welcomed the announcement of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee programme by Lord Mandelson, which includes a new bank holiday in 2012.
With snow and ice already covering much of the UK and weather reports suggesting that the snowstorms are moving south, the TUC has today (Tuesday) issued advice for workers and their employers on what to do when the weather takes a turn for the worse.
The TUC is calling on the Government to give agency workers real protection from exploitation and genuine equal treatment on pay, holiday and hours, as it publishes its response to the draft Agency Worker Regulations consultation today (Tuesday). The draft Regulations seek to implement the EU Temporary Agency Worker Directive into UK law.
The number of people spending their second successive Christmas on the dole will double to over 200,000 this year, a TUC analysis of labour market statistics reveals today (Wednesday).
With the Copenhagen Climate Summit drawing to a close, the international trade union movement is today (Friday) urging governments to “go the extra distance” to settle their differences and work together to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures, published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Welcoming the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights issued today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Commenting on the Government's Jobs White Paper published today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Commenting on the Department for Work and Pensions' response to the collective Defined Contribution (DC) section of their risk sharing consultation, published today (Tuesday), TUC Assistant General Secretary Kay Carberry said: